President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sacking of Prof Charles Quarker Dokubo as Coordinator, Amnesty Programme with immediate effect.
He is to be replaced by Col. Milland Dixion Dikio (rtd) as Interim Administrator (Amnesty Programme).
The appointment is with effect from August 21, 2020.
Mr Dokubo was suspended in February following numerous allegations and petitions.
A caretaker committee was then set up to run the programme.
Professor of strategic studies from Rivers State, Mr. Dokubo, was appointed in 2018 to lead the amnesty programme in Nigeria’s troubled Niger Delta after his predecessor, Paul Boroh, was sacked over corruption allegations.
“Following numerous allegations and petitions surrounding the Presidential Amnesty Programme, the National Security Adviser (NSA) set up a Caretaker Committee to look into the activities of the programme, on the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari,” Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said in February.
“Part of the Committee’s task is to ensure that allocated resources are properly utilized in consonance with the government’s objective of alleviating problems in the Niger Delta region and stamping out corruption in the Amnesty Programme.
“Consequently, the NSA recommended to Mr President that the Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo, be suspended, a recommendation that has been approved and which takes immediate effect.”
